Foldable rocking-horse



June '17 1924.

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GEORGE D. KEIL, O1 HlsRRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOLDABLE R0GKING-HORSE Application filed April 11, 1922. Serial No.551,449.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it kno vn that (mouea Knit, a citizen of the United States, residingat Harrisburg, in the county O11 Dauphin and State 01 Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Foldable Rocking-Horses,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to in'iprovenients in rocking horses and has asits general object to provide a rocking horse so constructed that it maybe readily collapsed when not required for use and may therefore bestored away or carried about more conveniently than a rigid structureand will, oi? course, in its collapsed form, occupy much less space.

Another object of the invention is to so foldably or collapsibly connectthe several component parts or" the structure that when the structure isset up it will be equally as substantial as a rigid structure and, whencollapsed, will assume a substantially flat form with its said componentparts assum ing a most compact relationship.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view 01 a rocking horse constructed inaccordance with the invention; 1 i M Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinalsectional View therethrouglr; i

Fig; 3 is a plan view thereof;

Fig. 1 is a plan viewof the structure col.- lapsed; i l i Fig. 5 is afront elevation otthe structure;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view illustratinga portion 01 thettoot rest of the structure.

The rocking horse comprises two figure bodies which are indicated ingeneral by the numeral 1 and which constitute the side members of thestructure and may be fashioned to resemble a horse or any other animalas fancy may dictate, the legs of the figure being indicated by thenumeral 2 and having rockers 3 secured to their lower ends whereby thestructure will be supported "for back and forth rocking movement. I

The structure further includes a seat which is supported between thefigure members 1 and which is indicated in general by the numeral 4, andthis seat comprises a bottom board 5 which is foldably connected byhinges 6, at one end, to the inner side of one of the figure members 1,a cleat T being preferably also secured to the said inner side of themember 1 in position to extend beneath the hinged end of the seat boardwhen the said board is in lowered or supporting position. The free endof the seat board 5 is designed to be supported upon a cleat 8 securedto the inner face of the other meme ber 1, and a hook 9 is connected tothe underside of the bottom board near its said free j end and isengageable with a keeper 10 upon the cleat 8 so that when the bottomboard is lowered to supporting position and the hook 9 is engaged withthe keeper 10, a substantially rigid connection will be establishedbetween the two ends of thebottom board and the two side members 1. Theseatfurther includes a back rest Wl'llCll is indicated by the numeral 11and which comprises a board hinged, as at 12, to a cleat 13 secured'inupright position upon the inner face otthat one of the members 1 to.which the. bottom board 5 is hinged The opposite vertical edge of theback rest 11 is hinged, as at 14;, to the inner face of the other member1, and the hinges 12 and 14: arelocated at opposite sides of the planeof the back rest so that when it is desired to collapse the structure,and after the hook 9 has been disengaged and the bottom board 5 has beenswung up to position beside the innertace of the member 1 to which it ishinged, the said members 1 may be brought together or moved toward eachother, thus displacing the. back rest 11 so that it will occupy aposition substantiall fiatwise between the said members 1. At t is pointit will be evident that the ends of the bottom board. 5 substantiallyabut the inner or opposing faces of the members 1 when the structure 19sc up and that by reason of this co action of the parts theisaid members1 are held apart and the hinges 12 and 14 are relieved of strain. Inlike manner, because 0]: the abutment of the end or vertical edges ofthe back rest 11, one against the cleatlg and the other against theinner face of the member 1 to which it is hinged, the said members 1will be relatively braced in upright position parallel to each other.

The structure also embodies a foot rest which is indicated in general bythe numeral 15 and which comprises a board 16 designed to extend betweenthe rockers 3 near their forward ends. Hinges 17 are secured to theupper side 0% tie board 16 at one end and to the upper side of theassociated rocker 3 and serve to foldabl connect the board with saidrocker so that it may assume the supporting position board 16 againstthe inner sides or the shown in Fig.1 of the drawings or the collapsedposition shown in Fig. 1, in which latter position it will extendupwardly beside the member 1 which is mounted upon the rocker to whichthe foot board is hinged. In order that the other end of the foot board16 may be supported, a rest 18 is secured to'the inner side of the otherl'OCkBr 3 and is provided with a recess or seat 19 in which the free'endof the said board may be engaged, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 6 ofthe drawings. A hook or similar tastening element 20 is preferablyconnected to the underside of the foot board 16 and is engageable with akeeper 21 upon the underside of the rest 18 and constitutes a means forholdln the free end of the foot board firmly in tl ierecess or seat 19so as to establish a substantially rigid connection between the parts.It will be evident that the abutment of the end edges or" the footrockers 3 and the relatively snug engagement of th free end of thisboard in the recess 19 of the rest 18 serves to further relatively bracethe members 1, particularly at their forward portions. the bottom board5 of the seat 4 serving this purpose at the 'rear portions of the saidmembers 1, as

previously explained.

The numeral 22 indicates in general a combined handle bar and bracewhich is foldably connected at its opposite ends by hinges 23 and 24 tothe inner or opposing faces of the members 1, the hinges 23 and 9 and 20from their respective keepers and 'ture.

after the bottom board 5 and foot rest 16 have been swung upwardly toposition beside the member 1 to which they are hingedly connected. I

Having thus described the what is claimed as new is:

A collapsible rocking horse comprising side members, a back restextending between the said side members, a hinge connecting one end ofthe back rest with one of the side invention members and located at thefront of thesaid back rest, a hinge connecting the other 'end'of theback rest with the other side tive movement of the member is about thehinges, the side members will be relatively displaced in the directionof their length and the said back rest and handle bar will assume aposition extending longitudinally between the side members, a seat boardhinged at one end at its upper side to the first mentioned side memberand adapted to be swung upwardly to position beside the inner side ofthe said member and-between the same and the back rest, in the collapsedcondition of the structure, and a foot board hinged at one end atitsupper side to the first mentioned side member and adapted to be swungupwardly to occupy a position beside the said side member and' betweenthe sameand one end of the back rest.

.In testimony whereof I GEORGE n. ,KEIL; La

